Blazing Miss heads strong line-up of two-year-olds on Central Coast

By Neil Evans

May 16, 2019 — 12.01am

You would be hard-pressed to find such a raw but potentially high-class field of two-year-olds congregating at a non-metropolitan venue than smack-bang in the middle of today's feature meeting at Wyong.

Nearly all of Sydney's top juvenile stables are represented in a maiden plate over 1100m, with most facing the starter for the first time, and virtually all coming out of smart work at the trials.

Promising: Blazing Miss, right, runs second to Amercement in the Widden Stakes.Credit:AAP

Mark Newnham-trained filly Blazing Miss heads the early betting resuming from an impressive first campaign when she took on some of the smartest youngsters around and reached group 3 level by her fourth run.

Blazing Miss ran a close second on debut at Newcastle last spring to dominant group 3 Pago Pago Stakes winner Cosmic Force, then close-up behind the smart Tenley, before running Amercement to a long neck in the Widden Stakes at Rosehill and finally being outclassed in the $2million Inglis Millennium behind eventual group 1 winner Castelvecchio.

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She reminded everyone of that class in a dominant recent trial win but today, against a big field of youngsters who are ready to rip and tear, she'll need some luck from a wide gate.

One of her biggest rivals at a much bigger price is Warwick Farm colt and newcomer Travanti, a free-striding son of Written Tycoon out of an Octagonal mare who has looked good in three trials and debuts in blinkers.

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But in something of a showpiece race that will have exotic punters licking their lips, Godolphin coltZakat, who arrives off two nice trials, Rosehill colt and fellow strong trialler Exceedance,Flemington-based filly Mini Boom, who also boastsconsecutive trial wins, and Randwick-trained colt and stablemate Hey Mighty are among a swag of serious chances.

Elsewhere on a very competitive eight-race card, local four-year-old gelding Seeingisbelieving can make it back-to-back home track wins in a class 1 handicap over the mile, despite carrying his biggest weight.

The son of Sebring has found lengths since returning off an eight-month break via two trials and is drawn to park right behind the speed and finish over the top.

That might be the start of a big finish for local trainer Kim Waugh, who saddles up improving three-year-old gelding Celer in a benchmark 64 over 1350m to close the meeting.